Peace in the Valley - Dawes

I think these walls have a message or have changed

Which it is I can’t decide

So I leave with the writer that remains

And let him tell me what his better days were like

And I sit with the memory of kings

With only words to criticize

As if I finally found the antidote for pain

Without knowing what that’s really like

And our actor ends his love song

And all these lovers sit and stare

If I don’t find peace in the valley

It’s cause there wasn’t any there

I will move somewhere the ocean’s never seen

Somewhere weeds just make their claim

Where my best friends exist only on screen

Where my love all fits in frame

But I want fire tumbling out into the night

I want you to know why you hold me close

Pull the quarter from my ear, or say you tried

I need magic or the holy ghost

And as I drive on through these canyons

I’m still feeling like a crook

If I don’t find peace in the valley

I’ve got no place else to look